This is Macro Voices, the free weekly financial podcast targeting professional finance,

high net worth individuals, family offices, and other sophisticated investors.

Macrovoices is all about the brightest minds in the world of finance

and macroeconomics telling it like it is, bullish or bearish, no holds barred. Now, here are

your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Sirezna. Macro Voices, episode 523 was produced on March 12th,

2026. I'm Eric Townsend.

Bianco Research founder Jim Bianco returns as this week's feature interview guest.

Jim and I will discuss everything from the geopolitical situation in Iran to oil prices, to precious metals, and much more.

We got a lot of positive feedback on last week's advanced nuclear energy interview

with ALOATOMIC CEO Matt Lozac, but also a few criticisms. A few of you said that we should

have been clearer about whether or not there was a present opportunity to invest in Allo Atomics

and how to go about it. I'll revisit that after today's feature interview.

But the much stronger criticism was that we picked a hell of a week to step away from

macro and run a nuclear energy interview as war was literally breaking out in the Middle East.

Look, folks, our guest interviews are scheduled weeks in advance,

so there's no way that we could have anticipated or coordinated the timing of the Iran

conflict with last week's feature guest booking. But what we should have done last week

is the same thing that we did on January 30th of 2020, when we dropped everything to bring

in a second feature interview guest,

Dr. Chris Martinson, who correctly called the COVID pandemic in that episode during a second

guest interview. Sorry, folks, we didn't think of that last week, but we can definitely make up

for it this week. So be sure to stay tuned after the feature

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